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Love Thy Neighbor?

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Source Summary

As the Hate Crimes amendment to the Defense Funding Authorization is being debated in the Senate, it’s funny hearing some of the arguments coming from those opposed to allowing the additional protections to sexual orientation and gender identity. Many of the callers advocating for killing the Hate Crimes amendment have taken liberty of saying it infringes on free speech. Nothing in the Hate Crimes bill (S. 1105), nor the amendment to the defense-spending bill with the exact same wording, makes any notation of hate speech. Nothing. Yet still, the callers and advocates – specifically from the conservative religious groups – continue to equate this with being locked up for speaking their minds! Literal calls to senate offices have beseeched senate offices to not let the bill pass, and “don’t let them lock up my preacher.” Hearing these arguments, the terms “specious” and “exaggerated” come to mind, but those descriptions fall

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Love Thy Neighbor?” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to religion and morality, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2007 at Transadvocate.com, “Love Thy Neighbor?” provides dated evidence of how religion and morality was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to religion and morality and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
32%
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Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
28%
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
19%
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Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
5%

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Interpretive analysis
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Criminal justice and public safety
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How “Religion and morality” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2007).

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7 2006

27 2007

9 2008

2 2009

14 2011

9 2012

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23 2014

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8 2018

3 2019

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2 2025

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Marti Abernathey

369 publications · 249 inbound sources/citations